Archive 2022

Whether it is a mid-week or a weekend outing you are after, the live music venues of the island are keeping performances going throughout July. Adding to the summer high ...

Police in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo imposed a curfew after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student protesters on Friday ahead of a planned weekend ...

Newly discovered Neolithic artifacts in the Akamas peninsula suggest the area may have played a more important role in prehistoric Cyprus than had been previously thought. In April 2022, lead by ...

The supreme court has cut the penalty imposed on a woman who was ordered to pay €450 for violating the Covid mandates, with the judges ruling it be reduced to €150. The ...

Russia’s ambassador to Britain said he was surprised London has not made more of an effort to secure the release of two British citizens sentenced to death for fighting ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday hailed the approval of Cyprus’ social cohesion policy programme Thalia 2021-2017, calling it a landmark moment in the country’s efforts to restructure and evolve ...

A Moscow district councillor was jailed for seven years on Friday for criticising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in what a Kremlin-critical lawyer said was the first case of anyone ...

EU member states that are attempting to tackle illegal immigration have done so by placing barriers, increasing specialised patrols and enhanced their technological surveillance systems, the interior ministry said on ...

A fire that broke out close to Armenochori community in Limassol district at around 3pm on Friday was brought under control three hours later, authorities said. The fire service responded, ...

Former judges and cabinet ministers on Friday hailed the amendment of the constitution to allow for what they deemed faster and high-quality justice to prevail, but noted that this should ...

Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen will be chasing his fourth Austrian Grand Prix victory in five years on Sunday as Red Bull seek to return to the top of ...

British bases (SBA) police Akrotiri division announced on Friday that the Kolossi-Akrotiri road by the Asomatos junction up to the south side of Alfa-Sigma supermarket was closed for road users ...

The introduction of a national minimum wage was part of president Anastasiades’ pre-election commitments, and it would have been introduced by the end of May this year had late minister ...

A former investment manager at Celsius Network sued the crypto lender on Thursday, saying it used customer deposits to rig the price of its own crypto token and failed to ...

The Hermes Airports Board of Directors have elected Christophe Petit as their new Chairman. Petit has served as a Board member since 2006. He is Deputy CEO of Bouygues Bâtiment ...

G20 host Indonesia urged the group’s foreign ministers on Friday to help end the war in Ukraine, as Russia’s top diplomat accused the West of scuppering a chance ...

Western officials on Friday tried to coax Russia into allowing Ukraine to ship its grain out to the world as the four-month-old war threatened to bring hunger to countries far ...

Blockchain technology has grown immensely popular over the last few years, and whilst blockchain technology has advanced, it is still in its infancy. Developers work hard every day to bring ...

Long one of the globe’s economic stars, Germany is on a brink of a reversal of fortune which some fear imperils the prosperity built by its post-war generation. While ...

Huge strides have been made towards the strengthening the island’s defensive capability, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Friday addressing military academy graduates during their confirmation ceremony at the ...

An upcoming workshop at CyHerbia Botanical Park will show the ins and outs of fermenting nature’s goods. Led by food anthropologist Eleni Michael, Sunday’s afternoon workshop will use ...

As chaos continues at airports around Europe, the Consumer Protection Service on Friday outlined travellers when they are able to claim compensation for delayed or cancelled flights. Those who have ...

An Indian cement maker’s recent purchase of Russian coal using yuan involved India’s biggest private lender, HDFC Bank, according to an invoice seen by Reuters and a source, ...

Cyprus has satisfactorily implemented nine of 16 recommendations made by the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO and partly implemented six, GRECO said on Friday. One recommendation has still not ...